Brand Liva has collaborated with Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), an apex body of Indian fashion industry, as an associate sponsor for the Amazon India Fashion Week (AIFW) Autumn Winter 2016. The brand offers an exclusive fabric innovation service to the designers through kiosks across cities. The 28th edition of AIFW was held from October 12-16 at the NSIC Grounds, New Delhi.

The politics of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill may take some more time to sort out, but its basic impact on various industries can be analysed beforehand. GST and its impact on the textile sector was the hot topic of discussion at the recently-concluded 58th Annual General Meeting of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), held at Hotel ITC Maratha, Mumbai on September 28, 2016. Speaking on GST were: Sachin Menon and Santosh Dalvi from KPMG, and Sanjeev Saraf and Dilip Dixit from BSR & Associates.

AT.E., committed to provide the best solutions to our textile customers in India, continuously endeavour to add latest technology products to its portfolio. A.T.E. has now joined hands with Savio Group, Danti Paolo, and Rotondi, from Italy, and also with Texpa from Germany.

Global textile industry has never been as conscious for sustainability as it is today. Leading brands, NGOs, Governments and consumers are looking for innovative ideas and solutions for sustainability in textiles. Bangladesh has the largest apparel export industry in South Asia and, at 6.4 per cent, the largest market share of global apparel exports among South Asian countries. The apparel industry is extremely prominent in the country’s economy, accounting for 83 per cent of total exports.

Volatile prices for energy and commodities, requirements from brands, retailers and end consumers as well as government regulations have made sustainability a major challenge for the textile industry. For these reasons, resource efficiency is one of the premium targets of technical developments. The increased responsibility for work safety and workplace design is also an aspect of sustainability to which textile companies pay more and more attention.

Lenzing is presenting a new method for measuring softness in textiles, together with the German instrument manufacturer, Emtec Electronic.

The increasing demand of quality textile products at competitive rates has not only made way for high performance textile manufacturing and processing machinery but also forced concerned industrialists to upgrade their existing system, to high end automated setup which ensures high productivity along with desired quality. The existing system consumes enormous manpower and always has an uncertainty of desired quality and production.

Knight Frank India has launched the second edition of its flagship India Warehousing Market Report 2016. The report unravels the present scenario of the Indian logistics sector along with providing a definitive view on the country’s top seven warehousing markets which includes Mumbai, NCR, Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

Sanitized, a leading producer of antimicrobial hygiene functions and material protection for textiles and plastics, has developed a new product for long-lasting antimicrobial protection for flexible polymer applications.